Overview
- Federal judge Luis Armella, who issued the summons Tuesday, set Vallejo’s first questioning for May 5 and lined up 13 co-defendants through late June.
- The court froze assets and bank accounts, barred travel, seized 10 vehicles, and ordered monthly police check-ins with a 100-kilometer movement limit and no contact between defendants.
- Prosecutors say Sur Finanzas ran illegal financial intermediation that used costly check discounts, usurious loans, required use of its payment rails, and sham sponsorships to generate illicit gains.
- Investigators cite transfers of about 818 billion pesos through the Sur Finanzas PSP platform and allege an initial $108.1 million in illicit capital seeded the group’s companies between 2020 and 2025.
- The case centers on links to the AFA and clubs including Banfield, San Lorenzo, Argentinos Juniors, Temperley, and Estrella del Sur, while new recordings under judicial review and inputs from ARCA, PROCELAC, the central bank, and the FIU continue to drive the probe.